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• Writing
• Reading
• Verbal
• Quantitative

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Writing Sample

• Directions
• Read the following topic carefully. Take a few
  minutes to think about the topic and organize
  your thoughts before you begin writing. Be sure
  that your handwriting is legible and that you
  stay within the lines and margins.

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• Topic
• Practice makes perfect
• Assignment
• Do you agree or disagree with the topic
  statement? Support your position with one or two
  specific examples from personal experience, the
  experience of others, current events, history, or
  literature.

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Verbal sample

• Questions 60 (30 Synonym, 30 Analogy)Time 30
  minutesWhat is measured? The synonym questions
  test your vocabulary, and the analogy questions
  measure your ability to relate ideas to each
  other logically.
• Directions Each of the following questions
  consists of one word followed by five words or
  phrases. You are to select the one word or phrase
  whose meaning is closest to the word in capital
  letters.

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• synonym
• TENACIOUS
• (a) sloppy
• (b) holding fast
  
• (c) uncertain
  
• (d) complete
  
• (e) vulnerable

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• analogy
• Meandering is to river as
• (a) winding is to road
• (b) wandering is to wave
• (c) scudding is to cloud
• (d) chugging is to train
• (e) rolling is to ship

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• Maybe is to possible as
• a. likely is to probable
• b. often is to usual
• c. many is to more
• d. once is to many
• e. sure is to could

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Reading

• Questions 40 (multiple-choice), based on 6-7
  reading passagesTime 40 minutesWhat is
  measured? Your ability to read quickly and to
  understand what you read.
• Directions Read the passage carefully and then
  answer the questions about it. For each question,
  decide on the basis of the passage which one of
  the choices best answers the question.

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• We had a consuming desire to see a pony rider,
  but somehow or other all that passed us streaked
  by in the night, and so we heard only a whiz and
  Thailand the swift phantom was gone. But now the
  driver exclaims Here he comes! Every neck is
  stretched and every eye strained.
• Away across the endless dead level of the prairie
  a black appears against the sky. Soon it becomes
  a horse and rider, rising and falling, sweeping
  nearer and nearer, and the flutter of hoofs comes
  faintly to the ear .Another instant a whoop and
  hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the riders
  hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past
  our excited faces and go winging away like a
  belated fragment of a storm!
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• 1. At the driver's call, the people became more
• disappointed
• eager
• frightened
• puzzled
• hysterical

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Quantitative

• Directions Following each problem in this
  section, there are five suggested answers. Work
  each problem in your head or in the space
  provided (there will be space for scratch work in
  your test booklet). Then look at the five
  suggested answers and decide which is best.

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• Questions 50 (multiple-choice) in two
  sectionsTime 30 minutes per section (60 minutes
  total)What is measured? Your knowledge of
  algebra and quantitative concepts.

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• What is the perimeter of an equilateral triangle
  if one side of the triangle has the same length
  as the side of a square with an area of 25? 30  
  20   15   10   5

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• Automobile sales in the United States dropped
  from 10.7 million units one year to 9.3 million
  the next year. The decrease was closest to what
  percent? (A) 1 (B) 13 (C) 14 (D) 15 (E)
  20

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• A store regularly sells books at 20 off the
  list price. At a sale its regular prices are
  reduced 10 percent. The sale price is what
  percent of the list price? (A) 30 (B) 70
• (C) 72 (D) 79 (E) 85